Baxter High School - Oriole Yearbook (Baxter, IA)

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FRED BOUGHEY, PRES. If a line were crooked, he would argue it straight. DELORIS PERIN For she is just the quiet kind whose nature never varied. LEO M. GAUCH GO West, young man, go West. CLIFFORD GULLETT There may be greater men in th: world, but I doubt it. tb' Aff' Nur '..5-7 miyf' 'X .qrax sa Q? A .WWI WILLIAM KRUEGER Nature has framed strange fellows in her time, LORRAINE CHARLTON Beware of all, but most be- ware of men. GEORGE HARDWICK Built for endurance rather than speed. MARILYN MILLER You know I say iust what I think and nothing more or Iess. Congratulations BAXTER DRUG Prescriptions I QJ. M. Reeve, Reg. Ph.

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TOMMY JOHNSTON, Treas. In athletics Tom shines, yet he's interested in other lines. JOAN SCHMIDT, V. PRES. A ,speedometer to register the speed of her tongue's mad race is her need. GALE BUTER A good heart and a level head. DARIENE KRAMPE Oh, who will walk a mile with me along Iife's merry way. MARJORIE KRAMPE, Sec. We all like her, we iust can't help it. DAVID M. McDERMOTT 'The more we study, the mere we discover our Ignorance! SHIRLEY KISER As we journey through life, let us love by the way. EDD AKINS In spite of all the Ieamed have said, I still my opinion keep. Congratulations From AKI NS HARDWARE

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.Yenioz 614.45 lfistozy This Is Your Life, seniors of 1955 This ls Your High School Life, seniors of Baxter 'High School, 1954 and 1955, and in looking back to the year 1951 we see twenty-one freshmen nicknamed greenies walking into the Baxter Schoolhouse. As we look a little closer we recognize them to be Marilyn Miller, Darlene Krampe, Lois Cook, Lorraine Charlton, Joan Schmidt, Marge Krampe, Patricia Warner, Clara Moe Maxwell, Shirley Kiser, Carolyn Huffdcer, Deloris Perin, Caroline Dawson, Gale Butler, Tom Johnston, Jim Lme, Max Gauch, Edd Akins, Darrell Sloan, William Krueger, Gerald Bucklin, and Verle Lint. Being new in high school you were naturally initiated, this being the first year the public was in- vited to initiation. Two plays were presented this year: One Happy Family and Wilbur-Takes His Medicine. Donald Scovel was your class sponsor this year. And now seniors of 1955, we lourney on to your sophom-ore year. This year your class only consisted of nineteen. Clara Mae Maxwell and Gerald Bucklin didn't come back to school and Darrell Sloan left in the middle of the year, but Cliff Gullett and Fred Boughey ioined you. This year your class sponsor was Russell Houghan. Now iuniors, and feeling a little more important, you start your year with only seventeen. Caroline Dawson, Carolyn Huffdcer, and Lois Cook didn't return to the school room. Mickey M!Dermott and George Hardwick ioined you. But again you lost three, Pat Warner, Verle Lint, and Jim Lane. As Iuniors you presented for your jclass play, The Mummy and the Mumps. This year you got to plan the Junior-Senior Banquet which was held at Elmwood Country Club in Marshall town and you get to decorate lbr Commencement and Baccalaureate. Miss Sime was class sponsor. Seniors at last and you get started right away with a busy year by ordering class ring, announce- ments md getting graduation pictures taken. This year you went to Sandy's Studio 'in Colfax to have your pictures taken, and then on to Des Moines for a chicken supper at Davy 's. Art Schmidt ioined you but left again. at the end of the first semester, thus leaving sixteen in your class. Now you are looking forward to your Senior Class Play, 'Jumping JeweIs , the Junior-Senior Banquet and most of all Baccalaureate and Commencement, with Mr. l.eeper as your class sponsor. After these activities we over you will start out into a new world of your own. Well, seniors of 1955, This Was Your Hidm School Life. .fleniot 61444 ptoyalecy This is your news reporter, Scndy Graham, bringing you the news of the day. Our first report comes from Hollywood, Califomia where Edd Akins, formerly of Baxter, Iowa, is now making a new film entitled, l'm in Love 'with Shirley . This picture is sure to be good. Mr. Akins has had previous experience In the dramatic world from being in'p1ays at Baxter' High School. Still in the line of entertainment comes this story of T. L. Johnston. Mr. Johnston has iust become a famous figure in the music world. Presently, he is singing with the Vagabonds at Miami, Florida. T. L., a soprano singer, will appear at the Baxter Nightclub in the near future. And now using her voice to gain popularity, Miss Mariorie Krampe, a former resicbnt of Baxter, Iowa, was awe:-ded the Oscar of the Year. The oscar was awarded to Miss Krcmpe because of her 14